Opinion congruence with a negative source on one issue as a factor influencing agreement on another issue.

An experiment was designed to test the hypothesis "that a statement by a communicator of opinion congruence with the communicates on an issue of importance to them will facilitate the opinion-change effectiveness of a following, persuasive communication on a different topic." The data collected on 120 college student Ss tended to confirm the hypothesis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)